This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
View text chunked by:
[4]
Another topic is that of constructing or
destroying by exaggeration, which takes place when the speaker, without having
proved that any crime has actually been committed, exaggerates the supposed
fact; for it makes it appear either that the accused is not guilty, when he
himself exaggerates it, or that he is guilty, when it is the accuser who is in a
rage. Therefore there is no enthymeme; for the hearer falsely concludes that the
accused is guilty or not, although neither has been proved.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.